Home Organization Skills by Jan Ferrante

n honour of the fresh spring day we are having - NOT! I am thinking that today would be a good day to declutter with some spring freshness in mind. What is stale and boring in your house?

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I’m pumped this week because I started on the Spring Into Spring Cleaning Challenge yesterday, and the first day was a declutter day. So I am all ready to roll with the great results that I got. I took a picture of the booty.

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This week I am going to bite the bullet and declutter the fridge, it is in dire need of some attention. Having a clean fridge not only looks better, but it is healthier to be able to find good food! And it’s so much more motivating to open a fridge that looks inviting.

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If your behind in your housework and would like to get things in shape for spring, stay tuned, I have some fun stuff coming up for a 6 week Spring Has Sprung Spring Clear Out to get things ready for summer so that we can be ready for the kids when they are on holiday instead of playing catch up right from the get go.

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I have been on a mission this past week to rid the house of cat and dog hair. Sleeping on a fur blanket wasn’t my idea of fun! Especially when it was supposed to be cotton!

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 by Jan Ferrante
I found myself childless, and alone, living the simple life out on the town yesterday afternoon.
No heavy and loud decisions about who wants to go where first, who wants something that they don’t need, who wants something that they do need but I don’t want to buy.
Just silence. […]

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This week I'm going to switch gears a bit and get back to finishing up some "to do" baskets that I never got "to do". 
I cleaned massive amounts of paperwork out of my office over the holidays, but I stopped short of a few important baskets, so I'm going to park it today and go […]

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What's your project going to be this week?
Hmmm, I'm not sure myself. I'm almost running out of piles!
But this is were the fun comes in because after awhile you will find that the top layer of obvious stuff isn't so obvious anymore and you can get down to some deeper cleaning and take it to […]

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by Jan Ferrante
Having a cluttered home can feel like a permanent condition as it is often so hard to get on top of it… and to keep it that way.
I have found a few tricks that really help to keep it all under control.

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I've found over the last few weeks of participating in the Declutter Day challenge, that I am seeing real results.
I'm enjoying clear spaces were before there where piles that gave me stress every time I looked at them.
They seemed to have been there forever with no end in site!

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